Last winter, we published our first public roadmap. Our key goal remains the same: take Ethereum mainstream by providing large, fast, and low‑cost block space, without compromising Ethereum’s security and economic model. Since then, we’ve delivered Prover completeness (first zkEVM with full London coverage), increased throughput to 27.5 mGas/s, shipped multiple UX improvements, and prepared our new consensus layer that will ship with the Pectra upgrade and, later, enable sequencer decentralization.
Building on this momentum, this post outlines our roadmap for the next nine months, focusing on four key areas of progress:
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Performance: Scale Ethereum and deliver a great user experience by reaching 0.5 gGas/s (~5,000 TPS), and achieving real-time proofs on Ethereum by Q2 2026.
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Ethereum alignment: Ensure compatibility with Ethereum, following L1 forks, and contribute positively to ETH economics through the burn mechanism, with a key goal to achieve Type-1 zkEVM by Q1 2026.
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Trust minimization: Remove single point of failure and trust assumption by reaching Stage-1 in Q4 2025 and decentralize block-building to a permissioned set of nodes in 2026.
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Capital efficiency: Deliver great risk-adjusted returns by making Linea the best place for ETH capital, starting with the launch of Native Yield in Q4 2025.
Let’s dive into each feature in more detail:
Q3 2025
Performance
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Limitless prover
Until now, we had to impose certain limits on transactions to ensure they could be proven efficiently. However, managing these limits required a lot of resources during block-building, and sometimes led to rejected transactions. This upgrade removes those limits, making block production 10 times faster. -
Small fields
Switching to smaller fields enables 10 times faster proof generation. This reduces costs and is a step towards real-time proving. Faster proofs enable quicker finalization, decreasing the time users need to trust the L2 chain and allowing for faster withdrawals. -
Increase throughput
These performance upgrades will allow us to double the maximum gas limit, enabling the chain to process twice as many transactions, ensuring that all transactions can be processed quickly and at a low cost, even during periods of high demand.
Ethereum alignment
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Burn Mechanism
20% of net income from gas fees, which are paid in ETH, will be burned. The remaining 80% will be used to buy back and burn LINEA, creating a direct economic link between network usage and value accrual for both ETH and LINEA. -
Pectra EVM upgrade
Upgrade from London to the latest EVM version - Prague, and following Ethereum forks. This update enables support for modern Solidity codebases, incorporating new opcodes like push0 and account abstraction for EOAs with EIP-7702, and ensures we remain up to date with future upgrades. Additionally, we will introduce a new consensus layer using QBFT, paving the way for replacing the current proof-of-authority system with a more decentralized sequencing approach..
Q4 2025
Performance
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Pre-confirmation
The sequencer issues a pre-confirmation that guarantees that transactions will be included in the next block. Users see their transactions validated almost instantly (~250ms), providing a snappier UX. -
Increase throughput to 0.5 gGas/s
This will be approximately a 10x increase, raising Linea’s maximum capacity to ~5000 TPS.
Trust minimisation
- Stage-1
Implement a fallback mechanism so users can securely transact and withdraw assets even if operators fail or censor. This guarantees unstoppable user access, aligning with Linea’s goal of trustless and resilient operations. It also includes a 7-day delay for routine upgrades, allowing users to exit the rollup if they disagree with changes. The Security Council will be expanded to at least 8 members, with half being independent third parties.
Capital efficiency
- Native yield
ETH deposits will produce staking rewards, which will be distributed to liquidity providers on Linea DeFi. This enhances returns for those providing liquidity and benefits all users by offering improved trading execution and reduced slippage. Learn more from our litepaper.
Q1 2026
Performance
- L1 soft finality
Transaction ordering will be constrained by the blobs posted on L1. This allows those who can verify transactions off-chain using their own Linea client or monitoring off-chain proofs to consider these transactions final before the zero-knowledge proof is posted on-chain. This reduces finality time from several hours to about 15 minutes, enabling quicker cross-chain bridging and deposits to centralized exchanges.
Ethereum alignment
- Type-1
Beyond current EVM-equivalence, Linea will achieve full Ethereum equivalence, including storage tree representations. This enables the Linea prover to directly verify blocks from L1 and supports becoming a native rollup. It also simplifies integration for developers using state Merkle proofs and eliminates the need for Linea-specific code. We are accelerating our efforts in this area to deliver much earlier than the originally planned date of 2027.
Trust minimisation
- Multi-prover
Implement multiple proof systems, including Trusted Execution Environments and alternative zero-knowledge proofs, to enhance rollup security. Initially, this will act as a backup to address bugs in the main Linea prover. Eventually, we will run multiple provers in parallel. This approach ensures that even if one prover is compromised, attackers cannot exploit it without breaching the others, greatly enhancing security.
Additional areas of focus
Alongside our main roadmap, we continue to be actively involved with the Ethereum community in rollup and cross-chain research and standards. We are considering these for future roadmap inclusion:
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Based Rollups (our team is involved in the FABRIC project)
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L1 real-time proving
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Native Rollups
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Cross-chain interoperability, including Layer 1 state anchorage, cross-chain messaging, and gas fee specifications
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Privacy
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